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There are plenty of handy metrics that can help to spotlight property markets with potential. In fact, Propertyology believe a combination of more than 40 factors across supply, demand and sentiment are key to…

Australian real estate IS safe-as-houses! Even during significant economic shocks, historical evidence shows that property markets have proven to be resilient and that there are always markets where prices are going up. Research conducted…

Now more than ever, Australia needs significant investment in infrastructure to support our growing and aging population. But ongoing tight credit supply has placed the funding for congestion-busting infrastructure, health care and education infrastructure…

We have entered an extraordinarily promising time for our nation’s economy. Future generations will look back and either applaud the way we seized the prospects or be disgusted with how the opportunities were squandered.…

Its population is growing at a faster rate than Sydney and Melbourne. Combine this with the fact that housing is incredibly affordable plus the general positivity surrounding South East Queensland, and it’s easy to…

As you probably know by now, if there’s something that is important to me, I’ll express my opinion – often strongly, but always with well-meaning intentions. Like so many others in the country, I…

While Sydney is seemingly setting a new record high vacancy rate each month, large parts of the rest of the state are experiencing falling vacancy rates, rising property prices and increasing rents. Greater-Sydney ushered…

There’s no avoiding the fact that the vast majority of decent, hard-working Australians are grossly under-prepared financially for a stress-free retirement. The numbers are staggering! Official government statistics confirm that, as at June 2016,…

I’m not a betting man at all. The closest thing I get tor having a punt is participating in a footy tipping competition each year. We all know that each year seems to produce…

I recently had the pleasure of delivering a keynote presentation for the Urban Development Institute of Australia. However, upon accepting the UDIA’s request to address an audience at the industry event in Townsville, I…

The fundamentals contradict the fearmongering! There’s a growing list of influencing factors which collectively equate to the strongest property market outlook that many parts of Australia have seen for more than a decade. Property…

Last month, the ABS released population projections for the next 50 years. The projections were published for every state, Australia’s eight capital cities, and the ‘rest of the state’. Aside from cries of ‘where…

Since about 2013, Brisbane has consistently appeared regularly at the top of property commentator’s list as the most promising capital city for value gains. And, it’s also proved a perennial disappointment! Each year, those…

There are plenty of cliché’s thrown around in the world of property. From ‘Location, location, location’ to ‘worst house, best street’, there are any number of pithy catchphrases that seem to sum up investment…

There’s been plenty of press about the tighter finance environment in the wake of the Banking Royal Commission and restrictive moves by APRA. Rather than relying on sensationalist tales with clickable headlines, Propertyology thought…

A highly desirable foodie culture, an unemployment rate that is consistently well below the national average, and a property market that has been so consistent that the median house price has only declined once…

Propertyology’s comprehensive study of housing supply across capital cities and regional centres has forecast mixed fortunes for the coming three years. Our analysis found that, while the total national volume of new dwellings approved…

We’ve all heard the story about the property market rollercoaster of that small town which either booms or busts depending upon the size of the workforce at the local mine. Truth be known, most…